Panels put rural homes on energy map
Two workers install PV panels on the rooftop of a factory in Tangshan, Hebei province. (PHOTO / XINHUA) Launched three years ago in 676 pilot county-level areas, the program aims to tap the
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Two workers install PV panels on the rooftop of a factory in Tangshan, Hebei province. (PHOTO / XINHUA) Launched three years ago in 676 pilot county-level areas, the program aims to tap the
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Workers install photovoltaic panels on a roof in Chuanxindian, a village in Zigui county, Hubei province, in October 2021. Li Qin, Party chief of Jieya, a village in Zigui county, pays a villager
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The new power generation facilities have also brought villagers a consistent stream of income with little effort. Shi earns almost 10,000 yuan ($1,400) a year from his solar PV panels and
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Other villagers are in a similar situation, with 30 or 40 photovoltaic panels on their roofs, with an average installed capacity of about 17 kilowatts, and according to a 2022 study released by
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In recent years, Huzhu County has harnessed the plentiful sunlight through the development of distributed photovoltaic energy, with villagers affectionately calling the solar panels
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It can meet the villagers'' electricity demand, and increase the villagers'' income by way of roof lease. The villager Shen Chenghua is one of the first few families in the village to install
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It added, however, that it had encountered some challenges in promoting household solar PV development in rural areas. The cost of a household solar PV system is relatively high for rural
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Yuanlong village is one of the villages that has benefited early from the income generated by photovoltaic power stations. Ha was among the first residents to install solar panels on
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Project Features Self-Consumption and Grid-Feeding: The project adopts a "self-consumption and grid-feeding" model. Villagers install photovoltaic panels on their roofs to generate
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